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Essential System Administration
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This book covers the fundamental and essential tasks of Unix system administra- tion. Although it includes information designed for people new to system administra- tion, its contents extend well beyond the basics. The primary goal of this book is to make system administration on Unix systems straightforward; it does so by provid- ing you with exactly the information you need. As I see it, this means finding a mid- dle ground between a general overview that is too simple to be of much use to anyone but a complete novice, and a slog through all the obscurities and eccentrici- ties that only a fanatic could love (some books actually suffer from both these condi- tions at the same time). In other words, I won’t leave you hanging when the first complication arrives, and I also won’t make you wade through a lot of extraneous information to find what actually matters.
This book approaches system administration from a task-oriented perspective, so it is organized around various facets of the system administrator’s job, rather than around the features of the Unix operating system, or the workings of the hardware subsystems in a typical system, or some designated group of administrative com- mands. These are the raw materials and tools of system administration, but an effec- tive administrator has to know when and how to apply and deploy them. You need to have the ability, for example, to move from a user’s complaint (“This job only needs 10 minutes of CPU time, but it takes it three hours to get it!”) through a diag- nosis of the problem (“The system is thrashing because there isn’t enough swap space”), to the particular command that will solve it (swap or swapon).
Æleen Frisch - Personal Name
978-0-596-00343-2
NONE
Information Technology
English
2002
1-1178
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